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Evening run from Boarsgreave&period; Parked above new small housing estate&period; Track up to what’s best described as the house were londrovers and things go to die&period;&period;&period; sharp left track to pick up bridalway then the old quarry rail trackbed&period; Shortly after Quarry info sign struck up on Quarry path then open moorland to small cairn&period; Irony&period;&period;&period;slight hail on way up&period;&period;

N&period;Morters

16/01/2019

went to trig point first&period; boggy and misty on top&period;

gettingonabit

06/01/2019

From ESE across moor from boundary top&period; Marshy in places but partly frozen&comma; but not especially rough&period;
&NewLine;2ft high cairn easily visible from about 700m away&period;

Nick Caunt

13/12/2018

From Cowpe &lpar;parking easy br new houses&rpar; up and back&period; Easier on way back as I cut straight to quarry area and its myriad of tracks&period; 100 years since Armistice Day - Lest We Forget&period;

SS

11/11/2018

From near new houses in Cowpe&comma; past all the old Land Rovers onto hill&comma; following paths up to wind farm to the county top boundary and then on across moor with no path&period; Wet and flat&comma; but HP easy to locate&period; Path off towards quarry to north towards Cowpe Lowe&period;

Parked near pub on A680 &lpar;approx SD831159&rpar; then cut over to the right of way then followed foot tracks to approx SD835169 then used wind farm tracks to get me close to summit then wandered through bog to summit&period; Found small cairn using grid ref on hill-bagging&period; Cheers&period;

assynt&lowbar;bob

03/05/2018

One of three from the parking area in Cowpe - sign says this will be closed from 5th May&period; Up to Cowpe Low mostly along the bridleway then a slightly boggy walk from the old quarry to Hail Storm Hill and the county top&period;

the&lowbar;adam

21/04/2018

From the County top over thankfully frozen tussocky bog to reach a neat square cairn at the HP&comma; slightly N of the OS Spot height of 477m&period; Cold easterly wind&comma; bright sun&comma; blue skies and hazy views&period; Onto Cowpe Lowe&period; Parked near houses in Cowpe&period;

4th and final hill of the day &lpar; i didn't know about the boundary log&excl;&rpar; on a route from Hapton station to Whitworth to complete Topo section R01- The South Pennines from Liverpool to Nottingham&comma; climbing Great Hameldon&comma; Cribden Hill and Cowpe Lowe&comma; descending SE to drop onto a track merging with the Rossendale way&comma; passing some Belted Galloway cattle&comma; taking pics and a vid before being forced off to detour by an intolerant cow who followed me for another 300 metres&period; I continued direct for the summit&comma; finding the small pile of stones recording 478m &commat; SD 83500 19349&period; I continued on and my nearest point to theoretical 477m spot height was at SD83475 19289 recording 476m &lpar;according to OS maps spot height is at SD83483 19288 so approx 80m further South than summit&rpar; Amazingly vast flat tundra-like plateaux&period; I headed NE paralleling some quarry workings on a path dropping back onto the Rossendale Way that merged with the Pennine Bridleway&comma; veering off this to take a fp all the way to Whitworth&period;

Dazingdale

10/12/2017

From Borgreaves&comma; small layby opposite new houses&period; HSH boundary first then on to the Cowpe Lowe trig pillar&period;

Parked at the top end of Cowpe village and walked a clockwise &lpar;unwise&rpar; circuit of trig&comma; county top and Marilyn&period; Through a tractor graveyard lower down then onto the open moor&period; The traipse direct from the county top is bloody horrendous&period; Best saved until after your dead&period; Summit yielded no views&period;&period;just squelching misery&period; Never again&excl;

As Mart&period; Parked in free cp just off Cowpe rd SD834214&period; Climbed Cowpe Lowe&period; Climbed up to the edge of Craggs quarry&period; Located top easily&period; Walked off west to boundary&period; Wet underfoot but not impassable&period;

Tramped across the bog from the boundary&period; OK today as no rain for a week&period; Wouldn't try it in 'normal' conditions for the area&period;

berksbantam

25/10/2016

Parking available in Cowpe Village&period; If you are doing this one after the boundary hill then a direct line across the moor is probably a no-goer&period; The summit ridge is entirely red fescue grass&comma; indicative of wet bogs&period; Better to head SW to the first turbine then head off to the summit as the sloping ground is noticeably drier than the top&excl; This is spoken from experience&excl;

moorsman

20/10/2016

On a moorland walk from Walsden to Waterfoot&period;

alistairpooler

15/10/2016

A bit of a quagmire on the top&comma; but the walk can be made really good by walking from Rawtenstall&comma; over Cowpe Low&comma; Hailstorm Hill and Top of Leach to Whitworth&period; Clear weather is a good idea to ensure that your wanderings all over Hailstorm Hill actually include the top&period; I stayed overnight at the Red Lion &lpar;good food and beer&rpar;&comma; then bagged Freeholds Top on day 2&comma; on the way to Hebden Bridge&comma; via Walsden&comma; Rochdale canal&comma; Warland&comma; and Stoodley Pike&period; Good rail and bus links from Buxton via Manchester make this a great linear walk&period;

Up from Cowpe Road on&lpar;for me&rpar;difficult to follow paths and then simply went uphill&comma;eventually reaching Rossendale Way&period;Good path to top of Cowpe Lowe&comma;then back down to wander through Cragg Quarry and find quite easily top of Hail Storm Hill&period;Crossed boggy moor to Hail Storm Hill&lpar;boundary&rpar;&period;Warm overcast day&period;With Oscar&period;

catman

06/09/2016

With Catman&period;

oscarrosie

06/09/2016

From road near Cowpe reservoir&comma; up to Rossendale way to wind turbine and along sevice road&comma; from boundry top continued clockwise along service road to rossendale way&comma; small footpath&comma; &lpar;lots of tracks for mountain biking&comma; up to hill top found stones&comma;continued clockwise and down&period; With dog and my daughter&period;

Parking to the East on the road to the reservoir then along the PROW &lpar;through someone's garden and across their patio on the footpath&colon;&rpar; &rpar; up to Cowpe Lowe then over Hail Storm Hill & Boundary summits to Hail Storm Ridge Pillar&period; Both Pillars in Good condition&period; some great views this evening&period;

griefmiester

05/05/2016

With K&period; In mist and rain&period; Quarry interesting and lovely well&sol;spring at rear of derelict farm just off edge brought home the humanity of days gone by&period;

From end of road at Cowpe&period; The path up from the reservoir is better than the one slightly to the north&period;

squeegs

21/04/2016

Nice to do this on a lovely spring day after trying and failing to get to the summit in heavy clag 3 years ago&period; Went from Rake this time rather than Cowpe to avoid what I remember as extremely wet bit by res&period; Did boundary first then pathless 0&period;6 mile bog trot to top&period;

Mark Sims

17/03/2016

out via Rochdale&semi; back via Rawtenstall

IanHHill

14/03/2016

Parked in free cp just off Cowpe rd SD834214 now with a little café&period; Climbed Cowpe Lowe then descended to Rossendale way&period; Went along Foe Edge passed Waughs Well and climbed up to the edge of Craggs quarry&period; Searched around for the small pile of stones&comma; finding them after 15 minutes of walking about&period; Still it was a lovely day and the skylarks kept serenading me&excl;

From Cowpe&period; You need a GPS to figure out where all the paths are going&period; There are mountain bike trails through the quarry which are useful if&comma; as today&comma; there were no bikers&period;

clivevilla

02/12/2014

With Cabe

simon and co

05/10/2014

Small Cairn Ground very boggy &lpar;SATNAV pin point summit&rpar;

dentalchimp

30/08/2014

SOTA Ref G&sol;SP-009

M1FHM

12/07/2014

Cairn

PeteF

31/05/2014

Best of 3 Marilyns on a driving&sol;walking day&period; From Cowpe &lpar;on street parking anywhere sensible&rpar;&comma; my walk was essentially a circuit of the reservoirs&comma; lots of good paths&comma; a disused quarry giving a dry and interesting final approach to the utterly flat summit&period; Soon back on interesting old tracks&comma; packhorse ways&comma;back down to Cowpe&period; Cloudy&comma; but good views&period;

pwheeler

17/04/2014

hard to find in the low cloud

bardolph

06/03/2014

Parked above old mill in Cowpe – Up road to old farm buildings and scrap vehicles – Left through gate and then NE & E up path to join Rooley Moor Road – SSE up ‘road’ before taking the right fork at 847203 – After about 600m join the Rossendale Way – W&period; along Rossendale Way for about 1km - Pick way through the disused quarry and SW across trackless moor for about 400m to the summit&period;&lpar;Solo&rpar;